Papa Johns CEO responds to Affordable Healthcare Act media issues ...

quote:Reporter: "My understanding is that if you're a full time employee, which is 35 hours or over, you'd be covered. Or if you're part time then you wouldn't be. So wouldn't some business owners just cut people down like 34 hours a week so they wouldn't have to pay for health insurance?"

What exactly is the purpose of the law? To take away his property and use it as government desires. When the government does this to you in the form of income taxes do you try and minimize your taxes, or do you send the government as much as possible since the purpose of the law is to take your property and use it for their own desires?

quote:One one hand it's not his fault for doing whats best for his business

Yeah, but everybody forgets that compensation (including health benefits) drives the quality of your workforce. Providing HC and NOT cutting hours may be best.

If you're cutting hours, you'll have to hire more part time employees (who will also have other part time jobs to make up the difference in time/pay)....so...you have more employees working fewer hours (thus avoiding HC rules), but each employee has far less 'invested' in that job.

quote:so corporations will get the tax breaks and then they'll be able to have the tax payers cover health care because they out smart the system.

You can't tax business's or corporations dude. You can only tax people. When they talk about raising taxes on business they are talking about raising taxes on people, which then reverts right back to the consumer.

quote:You can't tax business's or corporations dude. You can only tax people. When they talk about raising taxes on business they are talking about raising taxes on people, which then reverts right back to the consumer.

This is one of those platitudes like "everybody knows you always increase revenue when you cut taxes".